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Bill· HRH.R. 12342 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1976
American Constitution Bicentennial Foundation Act - Declares the finding of Congress that the Constitution of the United States established the longest surviving government now existing in the world, that the bicentennial is an appropriate time to renew our commitment to the principles underlying the Constitution, and that the period between the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the 200th anniversary of the Constitution provides an appropriate period to study the principles of the American Revolution, assess where our society and government now stand, and develop goals for America's third century. Establishes the American Constitution Bicentennial Foundation consisting of 15 members appointed by the President with appropriate supporting staff. Authorizes the Foundation to carry out a program of grants-in- aid to groups and individuals to assist in developing or supporting projects and programs to improve the understanding of our heritage, to maintain and strengthen democratic institutions, and to develop fresh insights and approaches to resolving the social and economic problems which confront us. Authorizes the Foundation to accept, use, and dispose of donations to assist in carrying out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for grants under this Act of $35,000,000 per year for fiscal years 1977 through 1981 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1982 through 1989. Authorizes to be appropriated to administer this Act $2,000,000 per year for fiscal years 1977 through 1981 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1982 through 1989. Requires the Foundation to report to the President and Congress annually to summarize its activities for the preceding year. Terminates the Foundation on July 31, 1989, at which time its duties with respect to insuring that grants made were used for the purpose they were intended are transferred to the Office of Management and Budget.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 851 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Limits judges of the Supreme Court and Federal courts to terms of eight years, with additional terms contingent upon the advice and consent of the Sente.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 842 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that with respect to the right to life, the word "person" as used in the fifth and fourteenth Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States applies to all human beings including unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that nothing in such article shall prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 841 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that with respect to the right to life, the word "person" as used in the fifth and fourteenth Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States applies to all human beings including unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that nothing in such article shall prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 834 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1976
Constitutional Amendment - States that, with respect to the right to life, the word 'person', as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency. Provides that this article shall not apply in an emergency when a resasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 827 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1976
Constitutional Amendment - States that no person may serve in either the House or Senate for more than 12 years.
Bill· SS. 3014 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1976
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish in the executive branch the Federal Election Commission whose six members will be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides that no more than three members shall be affiliated with the same political party.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 171 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1976
Constitutional Amendment - States that no person who has been a Representative or a Senator shall be eligible to become President or Vice President until the end of the two-year period beginning on the last date on which such person was a Representative or Senator.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 820 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, Congress shall assemble in special session from which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice President-elect. Gives the Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 821 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1976
Constitutional Amendment - States that no person who has been a Representative or a Senator shall be eligible to become President or Vice President until the end of the two-year period beginning on the last date on which such person was a Representative or Senator.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 823 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the time an individual may serve in the Senate to three complete terms of six years each. Limits the time an individual may serve in the House to nine complete terms of two years each.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1040 (94th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1976
Provides that upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to move that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 280) to amend the Constitution to provide for the representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress. States that after general debate, which shall be confined to the joint resolution and shall continue not to exceed three hours, to be equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary, the joint resolution shall be read for amendment under the five-minute rule. Declares that, at the conclusion of the consideration of the joint resolution for amendment, the Committee shall rise and report the joint resolution to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted, and the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the joint resolution and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit.
Bill· SS. 2953 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1976
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish as an independent establishment of the Executive branch the Federal Election Commission whose members are the Secretary of the Senate (ex officio), the Clerk of the House (ex officio), and six members appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. States that no more than three members appointed by the President may be affiliated with the same party.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 796 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that with respect to the right to life guaranteed in the Constitution, every human being, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, or of any State, shall be deemed, from the moment of fertilization, to be a person and entitled to the right to life.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 794 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that Members of the House of Representatives shall be chosen every second and fourth year by the people of the several States. States that the term of office of a Representative shall be four years. Directs that the Members be divided into two classes. Provides that the seats of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year and the seats of the second class shall be vacated at the expiration of the fourth year. Requires that seats created by reapportionment or the admission of a new State be divided in a similar fashion.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 789 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public building supported by public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 790 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that with respect to the right to life, the word "person" as used in the fifth and fourteenth Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States applies to all human beings including unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that nothing in such article shall prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 785 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the official candidates of political parties for President shall be nominated at a primary election by direct popular vote. Provides that each voter shall be eligible to vote only in the primary of the party of his registered affiliation. Directs that no person shall be a candidate for nomination for President except in the primary of the party of his registered affiliation, and his name shall be on that party's ballot in all the States if he shall have filed a petition at the seat of the Government of the United States in accordance with this resolution. Provides that a political party shall be recognized as such if the electors for candidates for President and Vice President of such party received an aggregate number of votes, equal in number to at least ten percent of the total number of votes cast throughout the United States for all electors for candidates for President and Vice President in the most recent previous presidential election. Requires that primary elections be held at the same time throughout the United States. Provides that the person who shall have received the greatest number of votes cast by the voters of the party of his registered affiliation shall be the official candidate of such party for President throughout the United States, if such number be a plurality amounting to at least 40 percent of the total number of votes cast. Provides that if no person receives at least 40 percent of the total number of votes cast for candidates for nomination for President by the voters of a political party, then the Congress shall provide for a runoff election. Directs each party to nominate a candidate for Vice President using the procedure stated in this resolution for the selection of Presidential candidates. Provides that in the event of the death or resignation or disqualification of the official candidate of any political party for President, the person nominated by such political party for Vice President shall resign the Vice-Presidential nomination and shall be the official candidate of such party for President.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 786 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the officies of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice-President-elect. Gives the Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 787 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no State shall be required to take into account the race or color of any student in assigning that student to a school of that State unless the student so chooses. Specifies that this article shall not be construed to permit any State to segregate students in the schools of that State on the basis of race or color.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 538 (94th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976
Directs that there be printed as a House document 272,500 additional copies of the Constitution of the United States (pocket-size edition).
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 537 (94th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976
Directs that there be printed as a House document 272,500 additional copies of the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence with an index.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 539 (94th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976
Authorizes the printing as a House document the Constitution of United States, with analytical index and ancillaries regarding proposed amendments, prepared by Representative Peter W. Rodino, Junior, of New Jersey.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 783 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the Congress and the States shall have power to protect life including the unborn at every state of biological development irrespective of age, health, or condition of physical dependency.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 779 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that with respect to the right to life, the word "person" as used in the fifth and fourteenth Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States applies to all human beings including unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that nothing in such article shall prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 775 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that with respect to the right to life guaranteed in the Constitution, every human being, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, or of any State, shall be deemed, from the moment of fertilization, to be a person and entitled to the right to life.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 773 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no unborn person shall be deprived of life by any person except as required to save the life of the mother when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of pregnancy may cause the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 774 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1976
Constitutional Amendment - States that, with respect to the right to life, the word 'person', as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency. Provides that this article shall not apply in an emergency when a resasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 770 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the States and Congress shall have authority to impose the death penalty for crimes involving the deliberate and willful taking of human life. Provides that in the case of treason against the United States the Congress shall have the power to impose and provide for the carrying out of the death penalty.